Summary - SM 2.24 browser does not always save a full snapshot of a browser tab
and this results in some web sites having to be re-logged in again after session
restore.
I recently upgraded from SM 2.21 to SM 2.24. In general, everything works fine
on 2.24, the upgrade was smooth as usual. However, I have noticed that SM 2.24's
browser tab restore now fails with some content where 2.21 did not fail before.
This involves sites which requires log in. Often, I may close the SM browser
with several tabs open, and then also close all other SM related windows to
completely shut down the application, wait 5 to 10 seconds and then restart the
SM browser window. This practice releases Windoww system resources and any
potential memory leaks, as well as stops the SM mail client from checking
e-mails at multiple accounts that I typed my password into during the last
session (i.e. no more new mail check / alerts to disturb the user).
With this practice, the first web site that SM 2.24 browser failed to fully save
its state is with OUTLOOK.COM. Previously with SM 2.21, when the session was
restored (anywhere from 10 seconds to 10 or 15 minutes after closing the browser
with multiple tabs and saving the session), I was able to get back into
outlook.com web mail without having to re-login again. However, with SM 2.24, it
seems to discard some private information and when I restore the multi-tab
browser session, I am prompted by outlook.com to re-login again.
Does anyone know what has changed in the browser session save that may cause SM
2.24 browser to leave out some parts of private data that would cause a failure
of full browser tab restore with scenarios such as this? I have other web sites
that requires log in and SM 2.24 restored them without problems but it seems
that SM 2.24 is not saving some parts of the browser tab in the session snapshot
which causes some sites to re-prompt for login again after browser session restore.
If anyone using outlook.com could test this problem by first logging into their
outlook.com web mail account, then opening multiple tabs, closing the SM 2.24
browser to save all tabs and then restarting the browser to see if they could
regain access to outlook.com web mail, I would appreciate hearing any feedback /
confirmations of this problem.
I have checked my CLEAR PRIVATE DATA settings in PREFERENCES, I previously had
it set to auto clear private data but the only data I selected to clear was
browser cache contents, which did not affect the older version SM 2.21 in always
being able to fully restore all browser tabs without having to log in. But in SM
2.24, even though I have the CLEAR PRIVATE DATA disabled, this problem is not
resolved and I believe the problem has to do with how SM 2.24 saves browser tab
contents that is causing certain tabs with log in data to be lost in the session
save.
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